Significant Progress Made in Recent Nuclear Talks in Geneva: Iranian Deputy FM
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian deputy foreign minister and nuclear negotiator said major progress was made in the latest nuclear talks between Tehran and world powers.
“In the recent round of negotiations in Geneva, significant progress was achieved and we hope to take more positive steps in next week’s talks,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for American and European Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi said in a meeting with Denmark’s Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard.
Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany), also known as P5+1 or E3+3, are in talks to hammer out a final agreement to end more than a decade of impasse over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.
The two sides held bilateral and multilateral negotiations in the Swiss city of Geneva last week to narrow the remaining differences ahead of a deadline in late March for a framework agreement between the two sides. The deadline for the final agreement is July 1.
Takht Ravanchi further referred to the anti-Iran sanctions and said that while some of the G5+1 members consider the sanctions as a leverage and are not willing to abandon them, it is necessary that all the sanctions imposed on Iran should be lifted unconditionally.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the senior Iranian diplomat hailed the growing trend of tries between Tehran and Copenhagen in various fields and called for development of bilateral relations.
Lidegaard, for his part, said the two countries have new and diverse potentials for the expansion of relations.
He also hailed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s influential and positive role in maintaining peace and stability in the region.
